Hello everybody, hello to you for watching us right now on YouTube live,

and hello to you who found our content on our YouTube channel and now wondering what this is all about.

We're very excited to present you the International Conference on Code Quality, the IEEE sponsored computer science event

which we've been organizing for more that a year.

And now let me tell you quickly the story of how it all started and what's staying behind this.

About a year ago, maybe a little bit earlier, a few people including myself were thinking about

how we can help Russian researchers and practitioners to be more integrated with the international community.

In order to solve this problem, in order to achieve this goal, we found a solution which was quite easy to find.

we decided to organize a truly international computer science conference inside Russia, which would be, as I said, truly international.

In order to make it truly international, we set ourself 5 important objectives, 5 components, 5 success factors of this goal.

First of all, we got support from IEEE. IEEE computer society is one of the largest, maybe even number one organization in the world,

non-profit organization which supports these activities, supports events, community workshops, and things like that.

And we got their support. Second, we put together a program committee of people from different countries and different organizations,

of different companies over the world. We have 30 people right now in the program committee, and only 5 out of them are based in Russia.

We actually even have more people from the USA than people from Russia in the program committee.

So we managed to put together truly international, in our opinion, the committee, the technical or program committee,

of people who decide which articles have to be published, and which articles have to be rejected.

That was the second success factor for us. And actually it was quite difficult to find those people and to convince them

that they should join us to be part of this program committee, because it's a new conference, we're doing it for the first time,

and actually we approached a few hundred people from different organizations, different places, and managed to convince

about 30 of them to join us, which we believe is quite a success.

Number three was the necessity for us to find local partners, so we decided that the conference will be international,

but the sponsors and partners have to be local based in Russia. And we actually found them.

First of all, we found the university, the HSE Higher School of Economics, which is Russian university,

and they supported us with this initiative and gave us all the necessary support.

Also we found three other universities in Russia, which in our opinion are the largest and the most reputable organizations in Russia,

and they also became our supporters, our partners. They didn't help us financially so much, but they gave us quite a lot of organizational support.

And also we found partners, commercial organizations which are based in Russia, not all of them are purely Russian,

it's difficult to imagine right now a large organization which is connected to only one country, but we found 4 great partners.

Number one is of course Huawei Russian Research Institute which is probably one of the largest research organizations in Russia right now,

it contains almost 1000 people and they're all researchers and practitioners, so this organization supports us, and we're glad to say that we managed to find this support.

Also we got support from Kaspersky, it's quite popular, also international company with the headquarters in Russia,

the company is originally Russian. Yandex, another company, also with Russian roots, also now it's